Subarnarekha flash flood creates havoc in Balasore, ⁠Odisha.

About Subarnarekha River

• Subarna meaning gold and rekha meaning line, i.e. literally means golden line.
• Geographical Profile
  • Origin: Near Piska village, close to Ranchi, Jharkhand.
  • Basin Region: Jharkhand, Odisha & West Bengal.
  • Mouth: Into the Bay of Bengal
  • Principal tributaries: Kanchi, the Karkari and the Kharkai.
  • Hundru Falls is located on it.
• Significance: Subarnrekha Waterway is declared as National Waterway-96 as per The National Waterway Act, 2016.

Wildlife scientist recently highlighted use of CaTRAT to identify Himalayan snow leopards. 

About CaTRAT (Camera Trap data Repository  and Analysis Tool)

• Software CaTRAT processes automated segregation of camera trap photographs of species using artificial intelligence and neural network models.

Other technologies used to track big cats

• Tigers: M-STrIPES (Monitoring System for tigers – intensive protection and ecological status), that uses GPS to geotag photo-evidences.
• Lion: AI-driven systems like SIMBA, E-GujForest, Alert Generation System etc.Source

India’s coffee exports have jumped about 125 % to USD 1.8 billion in the last 11 years.

About Coffee

• Coffee is a tropical plant.
  • Of around sixty different species two dominate world trade - Arabica, which represents 75% of production; and Robusta.
• Climatic Condition: It needs an annual rainfall of 150 to 300 cm and Ideal average temperatures range between 15 - 24 degree Celsius (Arabica)  24 - 30 degree Celsius (Robusta).
• Key Producer: 
  • Brazil is the world's largest coffee producer.
  • In India, Karnataka leads in production, followed by Kerala and Tamil Nadu.
    • Coffee is primarily grown in Western and Eastern Ghats. 

11th International Day of Yoga has been celebrated.

• The theme for yoga day was ‘Yoga For One Earth, One Health’. 
• In Dec 2014, UNs proclaimed 21 June as International Day of Yoga by resolution 69/131.
  • Yoga day aligns with the Summer Solstice (June 21), the longest day of the year in Northern Hemisphere. 

About Yoga

• Yoga word is derived from Sanskrit root ‘yuj’ meaning to unite, symbolizing the unity of mind and body.
• Sage Maharshi Patanjali systematized & codified the then existing practices of Yoga, through his Yoga Sutras.
• UNESCO inscribes Yoga in the representative list of Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity.

Alphabet's Google has proposed changes in its search results in order to comply with European Union’s Digital Markets act, as per reports.  

About Digital Markets Act  (2022)

• Act ensures that gatekeeper behave in a fair way online and leave room for contestability.
  • Gatekeepers are large digital platforms providing any of a pre-defined set of digital services (‘core platform services’), such as online search engines, app stores, and messenger services.
• It ensures that consumers will have more and better services to choose from, more opportunities to switch their provider if they wish so, direct access to services, and fairer prices.

The Ministry of Health is planning to integrate the country’s Rare Donor Registry with the e-Rakt Kosh.

• The National Institute of Immunohaematology (ICMR), Mumbai, has created a national rare blood donor registry to support patients with uncommon blood types requiring frequent transfusions.

About e-Rakt Kosh

• Genesis: April 2016
• It is an online blood bank management system under the National Health Mission.
  • It provides information about blood banks, blood availability, blood donation camps etc.
• e-Rakt Kosh enforces Drug & Cosmetic Act, National blood policy standards & guidelines.

A French woman from the Caribbean island of Guadeloupe has been identified as the only known carrier of a new blood type, dubbed "Gwada negative. 

About Gwada Negative

• It is negative blood group system, officially registered by International Society of Blood Transfusion (ISBT) as ISBT042. It is defined by the absence of the EMM antigen.
  • EMM antigen is normally found on red blood cells and is considered a high-incidence antigen.
  • High-incidence antigens are present in nearly all humans. 
• It is now the 48th blood group system in the world.

Researchers created a detailed map of the Sculptor Galaxy, using the Multi-Unit Spectroscopic Explorer (MUSE) instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope. 

About Sculptor Galaxy

• Also known as NGC 253 or Silver Coin Galaxy, it is 7.5 million light-years away from the earth. 
• Discovered by Caroline Herschel in 1783, NGC 253 is a large; almost edge-on spiral galaxy.
  • Spiral galaxies are surrounded by halos, mixtures of old stars, star clusters, and dark matter.
  • Both the Milky Way and the Andromeda galaxies belong to a subtype known as barred spirals which sport ribbons of stars, gas, and dust that cut across their centers.

Indian Farmers Fertilizer Cooperative Limited (IFFCO) to set up its first overseas nano fertiliser plant in Brazil.

• IFFCO had launched world's first 'Nano Liquid Urea' fertiliser in 2021 & then Nano-DAP in 2023.

About Nano Fertilizers

• Nano fertilizers are nutrients that are encapsulated or coated within nanomaterial (measuring 100 nanometres or less). 
• It enables controlled release and its subsequent slow diffusion into the soil.

Benefits

• Promotes sustainable farming: Reduces soil and water contamination.
• Cost Effectiveness: Improves nutrient absorption, reduce nutrient wastage and lower application frequency provide, etc.